The Future Summit

Accelerating Sustainable Development

The Future Summit (former WFES Conference) is a must attend event for the global renewable energy industry and sustainability community to hear about future infrastructure projects plans, government strategies and market-leading innovations in energy, water and waste.

WFES Expo

The Leading Showcase of Clean Technology

The WFES Expo brings together more than 850 international exhibitors from over 40 countries to showcase the latest solutions in clean energy, water and waste management. Discover top innovations and products launches from global enterprises, leading tech companies, rising start-ups and entrepreneurs from around the world.

Best Practices By Industry Experts

The WFES Forums is an exclusive, free-to-attend initiative that brings world-class expertise to the show floor. Whether your aim is to keep pace with emerging best practices, or deepen your understanding of a particular sector, the WFES Forums provide four days packed with industry experts’ seminars and discussions regarding the latest developments occurring across Solar, Energy Efficiency, Waste and Water.

CLIX

CLIX, launched in 2018, supports the UAE’s Ministry of Climate Change and Environment strategy to enable the sourcing and funding of climate change solutions and technologies.

CLIXis part of Youth 4 Sustainability Hub, which brings together wisdom and knowledge, aiming to prepare youth to carry forward the sustainability agenda by ensuring that relevant and actionable information is passed down from our current leaders and experts to our future leaders.

WFES Hosted Events

Where World Leaders Meet

WFES Hosted Events allow international organisations and global associations to host their main events alongside WFES, uniting stakeholders from every continent all in one meeting place. WFES Hosted Events are high-profile in nature: some are open to all attendees, while others are by invitation only.

33,000

ATTENDEES

170

COUNTRIES

850

EXHIBITING COMPANIES & BRANDS

$15BN

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Find Your Perfect Business Match

Sustainability Business Connect, an exclusive business networking platform, provides a variety of highly targeted networking opportunities for visitors, exhibitors and buyers. Over 10,000 meetings were facilitated in 2018. Find the right match, plan your meetings ahead of time and increase your ROI.

WFES is part of the largest sustainability gathering in the Middle East, Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW). ADSW is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the major social, economic and environmental trends shaping the world’s sustainable development, and to empowering the global community to realise viable and effective strategies to mitigate climate change. To seriously address the global energy challenge, the relationships between economic development, poverty eradication, energy security, water scarcity and climate change cannot be overlooked.

Other ADSW events include:

ADSW Opening Ceremony

The ofﬁcial ADSW Opening Ceremony initiates four days of discussion and collaboration between policymakers, investors and thought leaders. It also recognises ground-breaking achievements in sustainability with the Zayed Future Energy Award, a prize which has impacted 200 million people globally by giving them access to clean energy, safe water and food.

Highlights of the 2018 ADSW Opening Ceremony:

The theme was the “Butterfly Effect”, to illustrate that the smallest actions, when taken together, can have a significant positive impact.

Zayed Sustainability Prize

The Zayed Sustainability Prize (former Zayed Future Energy Prize) is a tribute to the legacy of the late founding father of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan – a visionary champion of environmental stewardship and global sustainability. This annual award celebrates achievements that are driving impact, innovation and inspiration across five distinct categories: Health, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools.

In addition to the global recognition that comes with being a winner of the Prize, each category has a Prize fund of US$600,000. For the winner, this is an injection of funding that may well be the difference in turning an innovative yet small-scale project into a world-changing solution.

The Awards Ceremony will take place on January 14, 2019 in the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre as part of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week.

Rain Enhancement Awards

The UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science aims to help tackle the challenge of global water stress by encouraging innovative solutions needed to aid people at risk around the world. Three researchers from the USA, China and Russia, respectively were named as awardees of the US $5 million grant offered by the program.

Meet the 2018 grant recipients:

Professor Eric Frew, of the University of Colorado, for his project dealing with targeted observation and seeding using autonomous unmanned aircraft systems.